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Hillary Clinton in a recent interview with the Financial Times ruled out a 2024 presidential bid.

"No, out of the question," she told the newspaper, pointing to Biden's desire to run for reelection.

A recent NYT report detailed how some Democrats are weighing whether to back Biden in 2024.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in an interview published on Friday ruled out a 2024 presidential campaign, saying that her entry into the race is "out of the question."

While speaking with the Financial Times, the former first lady and US senator said that she expected President Joe Biden to stand for reelection in two years. When asked if she could view herself launching a campaign after unsuccessfully challenging Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination in 2008 and losing the general election to Donald Trump in 2016 Clinton quickly waved off such a proposition.

"No, out of the question," she said.

She continued: "First of all, I expect Biden to run. He certainly intends to run. It would be very disruptive to challenge that."

Biden has said publicly and privately said that he intends to run for reelection in 2024.

However, a recent New York Times report detailed that some Democrats have expressed concerns about Biden's standing among the general public as his approval ratings continue to sag and the party faces a difficult midterm climate where Republicans are set to make major gains in Congress.

Some have raised questions about Biden's age he is currently 79 years old and would be 86 at the end of his second term if he wins reelection in expressing doubt in whether he will go through with a campaign.

If Biden doesn't run, Vice President Kamala Harris would be a natural successor, but after her 2020 presidential campaign fizzled before the Iowa caucus and New Hampshire primary, some Democrats might look elsewhere for a candidate.

After a rocky first year in office, Harris' political teamsought a reset; several aides have departed the vice president's office in recent months and she brought on longtime Democratic strategist Jamal Simmons to serve as her communications director.

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Politicians who could potentially be in the mix in the event that Biden chooses not to run in 2024 include Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg; Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, Cory Booker of New Jersey, and Bernie Sanders of Vermont; and Govs. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, Roy Cooper of North Carolina, and J.B. Pritzker of Illinois.

Clinton later in the interview said she feels Trump will run for president again if he is up for a third White House bid.

"I think if he can he's going to run again," she told the Financial Times. "Follow the money with Trump he's raised about $130 million sitting in his bank account that he used to travel around, to fund organising against elections ... I don't know who will challenge him in the Republican primary."

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Hillary Clinton is adamant shes not running for president again. But thats not stopping her from worrying about her fellow Democrats and their choice of hills to die on.

In an extensive interview with the Financial Times, the former presidential candidate said Democrats should be careful on their platforms.

We are standing on the precipice of losing our democracy, and everything that everybody else cares about then goes out the window, Clinton responded. Look, the most important thing is to win the next election. The alternative is so frightening that whatever does not help you win should not be a priority.

Defunding the police is one such issue.

You need accountable measures. But you also need policing. It doesnt even pass the common-sense politics test not to believe that. Some positions are so extreme on both the right and the left that they retreat to their corners...Politics should be the art of addition not subtraction.

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Hillary Clinton has hit out at Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and warned that many rights are at risk if Roe v Wade is overturned.

The former Secretary of State spoke out about the impending threat to abortion rights in America in an interview with the Financial Times, as the nations highest court is on the cusp of striking down the landmark ruling.

The level of insidious rulemaking to further oppress women almost knows no end, she said.

Ms Clinton blasted Justice Alito, who authored the Supreme Courts leaked draft majority opinion overturning Roe, as one of those self-righteous types who has long railed against lettting women into the eating clubs.

I found Alito was the kind of young man who when he was at Princeton railed against coeducation, railed against letting women into the eating clubs, and that was all in the background that I read, she said.

He honestly struck me as one of those very self-righteous types seeking to remake society.

Ms Clinton, who lost the 2016 White House race to Donald Trump, was a New York senator during Justice Alitos 2006 confirmation hearings.

She voted against his confirmation but he was appointed to the bench anyway by a vote of 58 to 42, going on to become one of its most conservative justices.

Ms Clinton described The Handmaids Tale author Margaret Atwood as a prophet of the situation now playing out in America as the efforts to oppress women knows no end.

You look at this and how could you not but think that Margaret Atwood was a prophet? she asked.

Shes not just a brilliant writer, she was a prophet.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaking in New York in 2022

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Without abortion being protected as a constitutional right, Ms Clinton warned that some states will ban abortion even in the case of rape and incest, prosecute women who travel to states where it is legal for the procedure and that one state and this is hard even to speak about would only allow abortion for rape victims if they get consent from their rapist.

Beyond the threat to abortion access itself, she also warned that other rights are also at risk in the ruling.

If you go down the rabbit hole of far right intellectuals, you see that birth control, gay marriage all of it is at risk, she said.

Many fear that the overturning of Roe could spell the beginning of the end for other rights including same-sex marriage, civil rights and access to birth control.

Roe was based on the 14th Amendment right to privacy a constitutional right that appears to have been dismantled in Justice Alitos draft opinion.

On 2 May, Politico released a draft majority opinion from the Supreme Court which revealed that the nations highest court had decided to strike down Roe.

It revealed that Justice Alito and four other conservative justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett had voted to overturn the ruling.

Pro-choice demonstrators outside the house of US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito in Alexandria, Virginia, on 9 May 2022

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Liberal Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan dissented while it is unclear how Chief Justice John Roberts planned to vote.

In the opinion, the majority said that the ruling had been wrongly decided in the past and that decisions around abortion access should be decided by politicians, not by the courts.

Justice Alito writes that the right to abortion is not deeply rooted in this Nations history and tradition and was entirely unknown in American law ... until the latter part of the 20th century something that also applies to LGBT+ rights which were established in the country even later than abortion rights.

However, he writes that the same reasoning would not apply to other rulings around intimate sexual relations, contraception and marriage because abortion rights are fundamentally different in that it destroys life.

The final ruling could come as soon as Tuesday as it is expected by the end of June before the summer recess.

If the final draft is released as it stands it will backpedal on abortion rights and access to reproductive health for millions of women across America.

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Tammy Wynette might stand by her man, but make no mistake that she could hold her own too.

Even with the First Lady of the United States.

Back in 1992, it had been 24 years since Stand By Your Man had been released and soared to the top of the country charts. But even when it was released in 1968 amidst a growing feminist movement, the song drew its fair share of criticism from those who claimed that the song suggested that it was a womans responsibility to stay with her man no matter how bad his behavior.

The criticism didnt seem to hurt the songs commercial performance though: It would go on to top the country charts while also crossing over to the pop charts, and eventually became not only Wynettes signature song but one of the most well-known songs in country music history.

But the controversy surrounding the song stuck around, and resurfaced again thanks to a 1992 interview from Hillary Clinton.

It came during Bill Clintons first presidential campaign. The then-governor of Arkansas was facing criticism after a woman named Gennifer Flowers came forward to claim that she had been engaged in an extra-marital affair with the presidential hopeful.

The allegations rocked the Clinton campaign and he began to drop in the polls. So he and his wife decided that it was time to do some damage control.

On January 26, 1992, immediately following Super Bowl XXVI between the Washington Redskins and the Buffalo Bills, Clinton and his wife Hillary sat down with Steve Kroft for a primetime interview on60 Minutesto address the allegations of Clintons affair.

Hillary Clinton was not yet the household name that she is today. And her appearance alongside her husband is largely credited with helping to stop the bleeding, turn around his campaign, and ultimately help him win the White House later that year.

But she also managed to piss off the First Lady of Country Music, Tammy Wynette.

During the interview, in which the Clintons didnt directly deny the allegations that Bill had engaged in an extramarital affair with Flowers, Hillary invoked Wynettes hit song in explaining why she was standing by her husband:

Im not sittin here some little woman standing by my man like Tammy Wynette. Im sittin here because I love him and I respect him and I honor what hes been through and what weve been through together.

And you know, if thats not enough for people then heck, dont vote for him.

The comment may have helped her husband win over voters. But it sure didnt help Hillary win over Tammy Wynette.

Tammy, who was watching the interview with her husband Don Richey as it was airing, was so infuriated by Hillarys comment that she wrote a letter to the future First Lady:

With all that is in me I resent your caustic remark. I, with no apologies, am as angry as I can be with your statement. Mrs. Clinton, you have offended every woman and man who love that song several million in number.

I believe you have offended every true country music fan and every person who has made it on their own with no one to take them to a White House.

And Wynette also offered to meet Hillary herself to let her know how she felt:

I would like you to appear with me on any forum, including networks, cable or talk shows and stand toe to toe with me. I can assure you, in spite of your education, you will find me to be just as bright as yourself.

I will not stand by and allow you or any other person to embarrass, humiliate and degrade me on national television and print without hearing from me.

Yikes.

For her part, Hillary would later apologize for offending Wynette, claiming that she was a country and western fan herself:

I didnt mean to hurt Tammy Wynette as a person. I happen to be a country-western fan. If she feels like Ive hurt her feelings, Im sorry about that.

And it seems that the two were able to reconcile their differences: Wynette would later perform at a fundraiser for Clinton at Hillarys request.

I can only imagine Hillarys reaction when she sang Stand By Your Man.

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An early conclusion to the Ukraine war may seem unjust. Yet that sacrifice is needed to prevent global turmoil.

Poll numbers are helping President Joe Biden to slowly comprehend the reality. Which is that it is his transformational $2 trillion Societal Stimulus package getting passed that ought to be the White House priority. Instead, this year he has been acting as Sir Joe, riding forth to avenge the electoral defeat of Lady Hillary in 2016. According to the Clintonistas (including those now masquerading as Bidenistas), the defeat of Hillary Clinton at the hands of Don Trump was due to the machinations of Vladimir Putin. Much of the election-related received wisdom in the ranks of the Democratic Party is clearly the content of nursery tales or morality fables rather than fact. To seriously claim that the current occupant of the Kremlin has the capability to overturn a presidential election in the US implies that todays Russia (at least under Putin) is way more powerful than the USSR was in its heyday. The Clinton fable that Russia stole the 2016 election created the momentum required for the next nursery tale, which was the Trumpian view that Biden somehow stole the 2020 election although it was Trump who was the President. There were indeed US presidential elections that were unusual in the causes of the final outcome, as for example the victory of George W. Bush over Al Gore in 2000, which was decided not by the voters or the electors but by that faithful associate of the Republican Party, the US Supreme Court. Loser Al Gore accepted the verdict of the court with grace, while President Bush went on to rescue Al Qaeda and their ISI friends through the Kunduz airlift in Afghanistan. Not to mention rewarding Iran by ensuring that Iraq moved into Tehrans sphere of influence in two years later, whereas the former regime had been virulently against Iran since the Khomeinist takeover in 1979. Joe Biden would have been able to defeat Trump in 2016, but his innate generosity of spirit towards the Clintons made the then Vice-President step aside and allow Hillary to be the Democratic nominee.From the moment Hillary became her partys candidate, Donald Trump had the edge, and he retained it by promising change, which was in a way delivered. Tossing aside the Lincoln dictum, the Trump White House was of, for and run by billionaires, no questions asked. As President Biden reminded voters some days ago, billionaires in the US each pay less than 10% of their incomes as federal taxes. What was Biden doing about such a scandalous state of affairs during his tenure as a Senator, or has done since heading the executive branch of the US? Biden soon lost interest in taxing billionaires fairly or in getting passed his Social Stimulus plan, focussing instead on getting bipartisan support for his mission of punishing Putin for what he believed was responsibility for the defeat of Hillary Clinton at the hands of Trump, the (in the restrained and measured language typical of her) a puppet of Putin. President Biden was joined by Boris Johnson and other European leaders in what they advertised as a Righteous War against Putin-led Russia. Four months on, even cheerleaders of the war such as CNN and BBC are having difficulties in claiming that Saint Volodymyr and his no-longer-merry men are having the advantage over the Russian military. The US-UK-EU stream of economic sanctions against the Russian Federation have not prevented Ukraine from losing more territory to the Russians. Instead, they have created global supply and logistics difficulties that are pulling the world into a recession that will develop into a depression unless the war in Ukraine is swiftly brought to a close. Bidens shift of focus from domestic priorities to the Russia-Ukraine war are on track to ensure the wipe-out of the Democratic Party in the November midterms. Such a catastrophe would thereby render President Biden not a lame duck but a legless duck during the balance of his Presidential term.President Zelenskyy is undergoing the pain of watching his country slowly drown in a morass of blood and treasure as a consequence of his lack of understanding of the imperative of good relations with Moscow in creating stability in Ukraine. Being a maestro in comedy may not always be the best training for a grasp of the realities of realpolitik. Even as Ukraine sinks, Zelenskyy is calling out for and getting more weapons, so that a conflict. The effect of this would be to ensure a catastrophic global impact. What is needed is not to continue the war but Ukraine cutting its losses and ending hostilities with its much stronger foe. Across both sides of the Atlantic, disregarding their own and their countries interests, the message is the same: the war must go on, no matter what the price, including to countries that have zero role in the escalating fiasco. Still fixated on vanquishing Putin rather than fending off the Republican challenge to the Democrats in the midterms so as to get passed his $2 trillion stimulus package, President Biden is leading the NATO charge against Russia. The 2020 election was won by Biden on his promise to focus on a domestic agenda designed to rectify several of the injustices that have long plagued US society. Getting passed by the US Congress his $2 trillion social justice stimulus is essential for the US President to achieve this. That priority appears to have been forgotten in the White House obsession with Putin. The USSR-US Cold War 1.0 may have ended in 1991 but its ghosts still haunt much of the thinking in Washington. Wall Streeter and economist Larry Summers ignores the havoc the Ukraine war is causing and repeats that the need is to double down on prolonging the conflict. This despite the fact that the war is causing the very inflation that Summers incessantly warns about. Meanwhile, NSA Jake Sullivan and Secretary of State Antony Blinken are busying themselves in trying to win over Beijing. Defense Secretary Llyod Austin in contrast talks about standing up to China in a way his own colleagues fail to do. Commander-in-Chief Biden is seeking a personal meeting with Xi Jinping in the belief that the latter will help the White House rein in Putin from prosecuting a war that is boosting the strategic interests of the PRC. What is obvious to those not in thrall to nursery tales and fables is that Biden needs to ensure that the war in Ukraine ends soonest, which is what Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been seeking for over three months and counting. What is lost by Ukraine is lost, and the longer the war carries on, the more will be lost to Russia, the more will be the cost to the globe. An early conclusion to the war, by removal of the life support provided by NATO to Ukraine may seem unjust. Yet that sacrifice is needed to prevent the world from going in for economic and societal turmoil that would be inevitable should the conflict continue. An end to the war and the attendant US-UK-EU sanctions would immediately send oil and gas prices down, damp down inflation and boost economic prospects as well as food security. In a choice between evils, such an option is the lesser evil. If done in time, its effects may even ensure that the US House and Senate after the 2022 midterms is such as to pass the legislation on the $ 2 trillion stimulus that is essential for stability in the US. Getting that passed after his party wins in the midterms ought to be President Bidens obsession rather than his quixotic quest for securing the defeat of Russia in Ukraine, and the removal from the Kremlin of Vladimir Putin.

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